The end of the Second Elizabethan Age, which is reached today with the death of Elizabeth II, is a moment of reflection for all of us who cherish the friendship and example of Britain. The first ...

This prevented a Catholic invasion and kept Elizabeth on her throne. The Elizabethan era saw England beginning to look beyond Europe and toward the New World. Privateers such as Sir Francis Drake and ...

After Queen Elizabeth II ascended to the throne in February 1952, the popular composer Ronald Binge changed the name of a light and graceful piece he had originally titled “The Man in the Street” to ...

Visitors attending a new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London will have to resist the urge to press their noses to the glass vitrines. Nicholas Hilliard, the 16th-century English ...

In Britain, TV sets had been selling at a brisk 1,000 a day in anticipation of next summer’s coronation of Elizabeth the Queen. Last week the Duke of Norfolk, who is Earl Marshal, i.e., master of ...

Liz Truss, the new leader of the U.K. Conservative Party who has been serving as Prime Minister since Tuesday, said "God Save The King" during an announcement Thursday about the death of Queen ...

THE term “literature of the age of Elizabeth ” is not confined to the literature produced in the reign of Elizabeth, but is a general name for an era in literature, commencing about the middle of her ...

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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — People in Indianapolis are calling it the end of an age as Queen Elizabeth II died after 70 years on the throne. “I was broken-hearted when I heard that she wasn’t doing well, ...